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List Price: $29.95 | | Publisher: Backbeat Books
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Editorial Review:
Now in paperback and updated with new material and photos, this acclaimed book is the first to examine the guitars, basses, drums, keyboards, amplifiers - everything The Beatles used to become historyÕs greatest rock ÕnÕ roll band. It analyzes all the gear and how the trend-setting Beatles played it to sculpt an unforgettable range of sounds. Year by year, Beatles Gear examines in fine detail specific instruments, amplifiers, and other equipment used by each artist - from the pre-Beatle days in 1956-57 Liverpool, throughout the global Beatlemania of the Õ60s, to the groupÕs disbanding in 1970.
Beatles Gear, Revised Edition Reviews:
Excellent book! 
2009-12-17 - Great book for beatles' fans, specially for musicians who enjoy to see the instruments.
Delivery was excellent as well. 100% recommended.
So What Kind of Slide Guitar Does John Play on "For You Blue?"
2009-10-23 - This volume is thoroughly researched and well presented. It is a delight to read and the photos are wonderful. Rarely will you find such uniformity among reviews for any product offered on this website. That alone is testimony to how stunning this book is. I happened to find a copy at a major chain bookstore, so I did not buy it from Amazon.com or an Amazon affiliate. However, if you are sometimes hesitant to make an on-line purchase of a book without physically examining it ahead of time, don't worry about this one: you won't be disappointed! Perhaps the best part of Beatles Gear are the photos of the actual instruments John, Paul, George, Ringo, Pete, and Stu played. Instrument techies will also love all the discussion of specifications and the effect that such things as short-scale Rick guitars, short-scale Hofner basses, a veritable parade of guitar and bass amplifiers, and different sizes of bass drums had on the sound of the band. And, how did they manage to compile all those photos of the various "Beatles" drum head logos? Simply amazing! Oh, and I won't answer the teaser I posed in the title line of this review, except to say that it was a Hofner instrument. Buy this book and get the details!
Great book
2009-08-18 - And great job from Andy Babiuk. I found many details i never knows about The Beatles and about his instruments.
Wonderful Reading!
2009-08-16 - This book is a wonderful and informational read. Their story is of course very familiar by now, but this book concentrates on what equipment they were using from the very beginning. It's a different take on their story, and being a musician myself, a very welcome one.
Beatles Gear IS Gear!
2009-03-29 - Wow! This is such a cool book. If you ever wanted to know about just how The Beatles got their sound... THIS IS THE BOOK! This book runs down the instruments, the amps, the modifications done to both, the drums, even instruments that were borrowed by/lent to the group. When I described the book to my wife, she rooled her eyes and stated that she thought a book like this would bore even The Beatles. I say, "Nay Nay". If you are a musician or a Beatle fan that wants to know as much as possible about the group, this is definitely the book for you!
